科学·艺术·创新——品牌建筑学的初探

谈到品牌，会想到品牌建立，但为什么有的品牌昙花一现，建立了不久就会消亡，有的则可以像艾菲尔铁塔般保留下来，世所瞩目？从效果来说，品牌和建筑物有一种千丝万缕的内在关联。建筑学所涉及的建筑艺术和建筑技术以及其所包括的美学和实用，又和品牌如出一辙，丝丝入扣。     

Innovation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship

This paper is a response to Ray's (2004) recent proposal that the intellectual property rights (IPR) attached to potentially life saving/life sustaining innovations should become public goods in cases where markets are either unable or unwilling to pay for the creation of the intellectual property. Using a free market approach to innovation based on Western moral philosophy, we suggest that treating intellectually protected life saving/life sustaining innovations as public goods will likely reduce social welfare over the long term.     

Devaluation,Innovation, and Prices

We investigate the effects of exchange rate changes on innovation by a multinational corporation. The firm enjoys a monopoly in the home market but engages in Cournot competition with a domestic firm in the foreign market. Changes in currency values affect the multinational firm’s profits in domestic currency units, and thus influence the optimal level of process innovation as well as output and prices in the two markets. We find that a devaluation of the home currency will lead the home firm to increase its output in both the home and foreign markets, and increase its spending on R&D. We also find that currency devaluation in the home market leads to lower prices in both markets.     

产品创新:谨防陷入沼泽地

<正>在美国纽约的"失败产品博物馆"里,高达8万多件"失败产品"静候人们反思。其中不乏很多大公司的产品,功能强大,或很新奇。博物馆提供了这样一个数字:美国每年推向市场的新产品达54000多种,而真正受到青睐的只有20%。     

Innovation, organizational learning, and performance

Literature examines the relationship between innovation and performance and asserts a positive relationship between organizational learning and both performance and innovation. However, few empirical studies analyze these relationships together. This article explores those relationships using SEM with data from 451 Spanish firms. The findings show that both variables — organizational learning and innovation — contribute positively to business performance, and that organizational learning affects innovation. Another finding of this study is that size and age of the firm, industry and environmental turbulence moderate these relations.     

Innovation,Creativity and Success

This article explores the role of innovation in small and medium sized firms, in relation to the firm's success. After a discussion of the relationship between success, innovation and creativity, some possible backgrounds of creativity and innovation are presented. For one part these are of a personal nature, like the entrepreneur's values, attitudes and level of education. For another part they concern institutional aspects of the firm.After the development of a number of hypotheses these are empirically checked with data from a survey among 200 entrepreneurs in six countries. In the appendices some details of the data and variables may be found.     

Innovation,Industry Evolution,and Employment. Edited by David B. Audretsch and Roy Thurik,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Antitrust,Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Small Business

The purpose of this article is to discuss a few aspects of antitrust enforcement that are directly related to small businesses. The first point concerns how the antitrust laws work as an economic "charter of freedom" by protecting our economy from the misuse of market power by dominant firms, or from anticompetitive collusion by groups of firms, or from anticompetitive mergers, all of which can blunt the mainspring of our economic success – competitive markets. Second is an expansion on the first theme which focuses on how antitrust enforcement helps preserve two freedoms that I think small businesses care about very much: the freedom to engage in entrepreneurship, and the freedom to innovate. A final discussion involves a few recent cases recently seen at the Antitrust Division that illustrate the many ways in which antitrust enforcement has helped the small business marketplace.     

Innovation,firm size,and firm age

This paper uses a new data set on innovation output to assess the degree to which the level of innovation in manufacturing firms is influenced by firm size and firm age. Indicators of innovation output used are the number of new products introduced as a function of firm sales and the proportion of firm sales obtained from products first introduced in the previous five years. While the evidence is mixed, the results tend to indicate that it is possible to separate the effects of age and size in assessing the level of innovation. Both firm size and firm age tend to be inversely related to innovative output.     

异质性企业出口、技术创新与生产率动态效应研究

本文探讨了异质性企业出口、技术创新与生产率的动态关系.在异质性企业垄断竞争模型的分析框架下,我们构建了企业出口、创新与生产率的动态结构模型,并通过参数化函数形式建立了计量模型.基于2005-2007年中国电子通信行业的企业面板数据,本研究采用biprobit、非线性最小二乘估计等模型对企业出口、技术创新与生产率的关系进行实证研究.研究结果表明,企业出口和创新的决策及其联动作用促进企业生产率的提高;企业的生产率、资本存量、劳动力投入和出口市场冲击是影响企业自选择行为的异质性因素;投资决策的回报随着企业生产率的提高而提高,因此生产率高的企业会自选择做出该投资决策以获得更大利润.我们的研究从理论和实证的视角在一个整体性的框架中验证了自选择效应、出口学习效应和生产率动态效应,同时对中国出口、创新和生产率的现状提出相应政策建议.     

Networks,Firm Size and Innovation

Using survey data on Australian firms this paper investigates the determinants of innovation. Various possible determinants are investigated, including market structure, export status, the use of networks, and training. Regression analysis is conducted separately for manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms and, within each sector, by firm size categories. The results include evidence of persistence in innovative activities and that the use of networks is associated with innovation in some sector-firm size categories. Specifically, small manufacturing firms exhibit a positive association between networking and innovation. In contrast, for non-manufacturing firms this association is present for medium and large sized firms.     

CHITEC, Innovation Changes the World

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Pablo Molina Petrovich, general manager architect of Architectural Office Association of Chile, is satisfied with what he has achieved by displaying a promotion booth for his newly-established China office at the 12th CHITEC. ＂Our Beijing office was just established at the early January this year, so it＇s high time to promote ourselves to be more familiar with Chinese. China now is full of opportunities here,＂ he said.     

发展、创新和环境保护

高收入并不意味着发展,它未能反映发展的真正含义。一个国家经济的发展,其含义应该包括人的发展,使所有参与经济建设的人实现自己的愿望。对于人类社会来讲就是要找到一种经济制度来解决我们遇到的新问题。在这种经济制度下,人们精神振奋,在创新的过程中提升自己的知识境界,整个经济始终在接收、发展、评估、测试、创新。经济的发展是一个创新的过程,是人类的持续发展,他们通过参与经济活动而持续发展,而不只是利益问题。快速的增长并不是发展的关键,解决问题、科学发现和人的发展才是关键。创新型经济应该考虑环境问题,但创新与环境保护绝对不是矛盾的。     

创新品牌 共享和谐——2007年重庆电视台活动营销故事开讲

人文天下，以真情打动，2007重庆卫视活动营销，不走寻常路。     

Innovation and Corporate Failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945-1968

This article is a response to Patrick Fridenson’s callfor more research into the life cycle of enterprises and especiallyinto business failure. Its subject is the textile group establishedin 1945 by Cyril Lord, which went on to encompass merchanting,manufacturing, retailing, and finance, operating in the UnitedKingdom, the United States, and South Africa. Using unpublishedrecords as well as the financial and trade press, the articleexplains the nature of Lord’s financial, mercantile, andmanufacturing networks, and his rapid growth, based on productinnovation, novel sales techniques, and massive advertising.The article then examines his subsequent insolvency and receivershipin 1968. It contributes to our understanding of corporate failureand the role of the receiver, financial institutions, and governmentin that process.     

Introduction. The Internationalisation of the Innovation Process

The international economics of business and management has focused - both in the academic literature and in corporate and public policy discussions - increasingly on issues of globalisation, innovation and 'competitiveness'. These issues, and in particular their interrelation, are analysed in detail in this Special Issue of the International Journal of the Economics of Business. This opening article aims to set the scene by considering how the rather distinct literatures around the above three topics can best be drawn upon in order to focus on what implications the new global economic environment has for the economics of business and public policy.     

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds. Financing Innovation: In the United States, 1870 to the Present

This edited volume makes a large and welcome contribution toour understanding of the history of entrepreneurial financein the United States. The focus of the volume is on innovationby both corporations and entrepreneurs. It examines all theimportant forms of financing, including wealthy individuals(who we now call angels), venture capital, government financingand debt. Scholars of many disciplines, including economics,finance, entrepreneurship, business history, and organizationalnetworks will find this volume to be of interest and the essayscan be read either selectively or globally. Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's introduction is a significant chapterin itself, providing a rich historical analysis of the riseof the U.S. patenting system. The editors also provide a     

物流技术的创新、选择和演进

本文认为,物流技术创新涉及经营管理和工具、装备、设施等领域,包括运输、储存、装卸、搬运、包装、配送、流通加工、信息等。一种新物流技术能否被社会选择,需求和相对要素价格变化是重要的影响因素。文章提出,物流技术与装备的发展趋势是先进性、信息化、多样性与专业性、标准化与模块化、系统性与可扩展性、智能性与人性化、绿色化与节能化。具体来说,物流技术会与信息技术紧密结合,实现高度自动化;运输技术会朝着高速化、重载化、节能化和更安全的方向演进,如重载列车、超级生态船、超高速飞机等;装卸搬运技术将向更加节省人力、更加智能、更有效率的方向发展,如激光导引自动车、搬运机器人等;仓储技术将向更加节约土地、节约空间、更加高效率的方向发展,如自动化立体仓库、驶入式激光导引高密度储存系统等。     

Toward a Multistage,Multilevel Theory of Innovation

Despite an impressive amount of research, the innovation literature may be characterized as fragmented with little cross‐fertilization and synthesis of findings across levels. Based on a review of conceptual and empirical work on innovation, we present a cross‐level theory that aims to clarify terminology in the innovation process and highlight key concepts and themes that have emerged in innovation research across levels of analysis. We model innovation, offer specific research propositions derived from the model, and identify directions for future research both within and across levels of analysis. Overall, this research responds to the need for greater cross‐level theory building on innovation and a more inclusive consideration of various social and contextual influences in the innovation process. Copyright © 2011 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.